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but the Isles de Los were ceded to France under the Convention of 1904. There are in the Colony Executive and Legislative Councils, nominated.

Area of the Colony 4,000 square miles approximately ; population (census 1911), 75,572, of whom 702 were whites. The birth-rate for Freetown (1919) was 21 4 per thousand, and the death-rate 25 7 ; infantile mortality is Tery high, being 30 per cent, per 1,000 births average 191719, and be° increasing. Chief town, Freetown, 34,090 inhabitants (1911), head quarters of H.M.'s forces in West Africa. The battalion of the West African Frontier Force has its headquarters at Daru on the Moa River. Freetown, the greatest seaport in West Africa, is a second-class Imperial coaling station, with an excellent harbour.

In 1919 there were 169 elementary and intermediate schools, with an average attendance of 6,004 : grants-in-aid to the assisted schools, 119 in number, 4.644/. The assisted schools are all denominational, In-longing to 8 nary societies. There were (1919) 10 secondary schools in the Colony, 8 of which arc missionary institutions, while the remainder are owned privately. Grants-in-aid to 3 assiated schools, 269/. There is a Government Modd School (secondary), with average attendance of 257 in 1919. In the Protectorate! are the following Government institutions: the Bo School, for

'is of Chi _:iculturul Training College, and 3 A

vernacular schools. Fourah Bay College is affiliated to the University ol Durham. There are 5 Mohammedan schools in the Colony, with an a attendance 1919 of 392. Training classes for teachers are attached to the I Jo and Government Model Schools. Police force at end of 1919 had an authorised strength of 300, including 11 European officers. In 1917, 60 persons were convicted of indictable offences in the Supreme Court, and 1,745 Summarily convicted in the police court-.

1913

I9U

Mac

lflT

191S

1919

(pre-war)

£

£

£

£

£

£

ReTenue

618.3S3

504,424

551,106

546,44*

583.159

Expenditure-

H, 438

546,771

532,940

612,844

544.011

740.3S3

Imports

1,750,303

1,256,75s

1,29.

1,332,752

1,680,336

Exports

1,731,25-2

1,254,621

1,223,544

1.497,995

1,516,871

The revenue from Customs in 1919 was 452,325/., and from the railway, 175, 442 J.

Net public debt, December 31, 1919, 1,730,048J.

Principal imports, 1919 : Cotton manufacture, 461.098?. ; coal, 164,171/. : spirits, 60,940/. ; tobacco, 244,755/. ; oil (kerosene), 40,778/. Principal exports, 1919: Singer, 31,110/. (1,069 tons): palm kernels, 1,191,607/. (50,622 tons) ; kola nuts. 417.378/. ; palm oil, 115,515/. 828,750 gall

Imports from United Kingdom in 1919, 1,372,985/. ; exports thereto, 1,374,510/.

The tonnage of vessels entered and cleared in the foreign trade is given as follows (excluding vessels in Admiralty servica) : —

1913 (pre-war)

1915

1916

1917

191- 1919

Total tonnage British only.

2,931,085

2,051,310

1,635.119 1,52c

1,553,312 1,410,000

1,526,640 1,417,804

1,736,247 2,016,699 1,669,984 1,953,760